Trident

Ministry of Defence releases information on Successor submarine design contracts

By Nuclear Information Service Date: 8 December 2013 The Ministry of Defence has released a list of fifty contracts currently in place for the development of the new ‘Successor’ Trident replacement submarine that is intended to replace the UK’s current Vanguard class nuclear weapon submarines. The list was published by Philip Dunne, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support, and Technology, in response to a written Parliamentary Question asked by Paul Flynn MP. The list of contracts gives an insight into…

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Nuclear scare at Navy submarine base after ‘unbelievable’ failures

Nuclear scare at Navy submarine base after ‘unbelievable’ failures

Double defects left vessels without vital sources of coolant for their reactors, despite earlier warnings and incidents SAM MASTERS SUNDAY 6th OCTOBER 2013 A major nuclear incident was narrowly averted at the heart of Britain’s Royal Navy submarine fleet, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. The failure of both the primary and secondary power sources of coolant for nuclear reactors at the Devonport dockyard in Plymouth on 29 July last year followed warnings in previous years of…

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CND - Disarming Trident - a practical guide

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Disarming Trident:Scottish CND

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The Trident Nuclear Weapons System

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Trident is a submarine-launched inter-continental ballistic nuclear weapons system, which is currently carried by four Royal Navy Vanguard-class submarines. Trident is a US nuclear system. The US provides assistance to Britain with its nuclear programme under the 1958 US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement. The UK has access to 58 missiles from the US pool of Trident II D5 missiles. British Trident Submarines collect the missiles from the US Trident base at Kings Bay, Georgia in the South-East…

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Why we must not replace Trident

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Replacing Trident will commit us to having nuclear weapons for 50 more years despite these important facts: The enormous cost • It will cost us at least £100 billion to procure and then maintain a new nuclear weapons system. • The current system already costs us at least £2 billion every year just to keep running. The majority of people are against nuclear weapons • Poll after poll show that the majority of British people are…

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Ken Loach

“Spending £100 billion on replacing Trident is a catastrophic folly. I’m sure I am one of many who support the those, like Action-AWE, who campaign actively and imaginatively against it”

– Ken Loach

John Hurt

".....the government has pledged to rebuild a new generation of British nuclear weapons at enormous cost and at a time when social services budgets including those for health and education are being drastically cut. Having nuclear weapons doesn't make us safer, it just brings the possibility of nuclear conflict ever closer. We need to protect this planet not put it at even more risk of destruction. We all have a voice so please use yours and join me in supporting ACTION AWE." John Hurt
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